skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would purchasing Waze address any of the perceived shortcomings of Apple Maps? And where does Waze currently get it mapping info? I kind of doubt that Waze has data sets that rival Google or Nokia, or even Tom Tom.
File sharing site that lets you set passwords(www.moonberri.com)
List of freely available physics books
There's a reason why a domain can have multiple mail exchanger records.
It's just you.

It was always as boring (or always as exciting) with respect to the quality of the discussion and the posts.
That's why I said "sort of". Arch (as far as I know) doesn't provide a global way to do what USE flags do in gentoo, but the same end can be acomplished by tweaking the packages . There are also ways to apply those changes automatically, but they are not the same thing either.[1]

[1]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10314
1. Really the question I should've asked here was for example where their strong features got watered down. I'm less interested in the specifics, but as far as I can tell, the webapp has gotten better over time, not worse. As for the circles thing, are you talking about seeing the contents of the circle themselves, or the posts shared with you by the people in that circle? If the first, on the left hand side there's a button for circles. If the second, on the home page at the top is your list of circles, just click on the one you want to see. So I guess I'm not really seeing what you're complaining about.

2. Are you using one of their free products or paid? If you're using Google Apps for Businesses, for example, there are support phone numbers to call.

3. That's too bad then. The Android app certainly has problems, but overall is pretty good.
There is an anti-Christmas policy, however: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3364516. :)
SMTP does sometimes just drop messages, it's not a protocol that guarantees delivery
why did he receive the "wanted to check in one more time" email? strange that he missed the initial email, but then received the second one.
My assumption, which dates back to the first time I encountered the word "troll" in its usenet sense, was that it derived from exactly that metaphor.

Trolling for a reaction. Spreading out some chum, setting the line, seeing who bites.
You're talking about Google's multi-login, which allows you to log into Google with multiple accounts. This thread, however, is about Chrome's profiles, which lets you open multiple browser windows each with a different profile (i.e. cookies, Google account, extensions, etc.).
Nope[1], nor reasonably could they. The cost of doing tech support for 1 billion people is just massive.

[1]: https://www.facebook.com/help/?page=220217228006012
I don't know what sort of pattern you're envisioning, but I (and most of the programmers I know) work in bursts. Sure, I can appear to be busy doing the 9-to-5 thing, but a lot of that is being done sort of absently/mechanically. When the light bulb goes on, when the problem that's been running in a background process while I've been absently doing the ritual crap that needs doing is finally solved (or at least a method of solving it emerges), my mode changes. That can happen at any time of the day (or at no time on some days). Just getting that flash into tangible form (let's forget about getting it polished for the moment) takes time and doesn't easily tolerate interruption. And it isn't something that happens at will. It's time to drop this whole mumbo-jumbo "developers are just like factory workers" thing. There may be elements of engineering in what we do, but unless we're working on solved problems, we're creatives with a technical bent.
GrayGelf - Fully compliant Graylog2/GELF client and server
Hypothetically a bigger hedge fund could bid up Apple stock causing the smaller hedge fund to lose its shirt... and its quite plausible given that the world's biggest hedge fund is Apple!

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-09-30/presenting-worlds-b...
If the "Eastern Economy Edition" (EEE) prints of textbooks are similar to the ones that Kirtsaeng sold on ebay, the books may have a sale restriction based on region - a clause on the book that says something like "this book may only be sold <here> and <there>".

Kirtsaeng probably violated that clause ... if it was present. If that was the case, it may be interpreted as copyright violation, I think, if there is considerable monetary impact on the copyright owner on account of such a resale.

The article presents the case as a general assault on resale, but I believe it may be judged more along the lines of "does such resale prevent the copyright holder from financially benefiting from the artifact?" If I hold one EEE copy of a textbook that I sell on ebay, the financial impact to the publisher is insignificant than if I mass imported EEE copies for sale in the US. Though the sale act is the same in both these cases, I think only the mass sale may count as copyright violation. Perhaps I'm dreaming, but it doesn't look like the general ability of people to sell their stuff second hand (bought wherever) is likely on the table here at all.

(I'm not a lawyer. Just speculating about what aspects of copyright might be involved.)
Most likely not, so good question. All that went through my mind when I read the post title was "Why Apple should acquire [Some Company With Way Better Maps]"...
Personally I think if you turn on forwarding at the account level, everything should be forwarded straight away and no filters or spam processing should be done.

If you forward a filtered set of emails (if that's even possible in gmail) then you presumably know what you're asking for.
I am actually surprised no one has pointed out Dailymotion a Youtube like service which does well in France [0,1]. It has most feature which Youtube provides.

[0] http://www.dailymotion.com/

[1] http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/dailymotion.com#

Off-topic but interesting fact

One of the founders of YouTube - Steve Chen - worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Facebook for a few months in 2005 before leaving to start YouTube. He is one of the first 20 employees of Facebook [2].

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/facebooks-first-20-employees-...
>"Rank-and-file workers at four of the highest profile Internet companies that began selling shares in the past 16 months have collectively lost about $9 billion on paper..."

...while SV insiders, many of whom are looked up to and idolized by these very same rank-and-file employees, got even more wealthy by being on the other side of the trade.

>"Employees at recent IPOs could still recoup the paper losses, and more, if the shares rebound."

I know someone with some old Enron stock certs. Anyone interested?
Either the system is broken, or some people are just gasp not motivated as much by money. There are quite a few internships in programming (just check out glassdoor) that pay about as much as a tenure-track professor, and these days with all the shenanigans in academia I would be hesitant to make a judgement on which will provide better job security...

So the economy rewards someone building facebook or groupon more than someone with a PHD and multiple post-docs doing basic research, and while the developers for said companies do add a tremendous amount of value, which is reflected in their sallary -- IMO it is more likely that DARPA or a similar government body is more likely to develop the next step in innovation. Siri was originally a government project, that was then commercialized from CALO. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CALO Same goes for the internet.
It's not about kindness toward the people running the service, it's about kindness toward the service's users who are potentially compromised.

With responsible disclosure, only the original poster and anyone else who happened to figure this out would know. Now everyone does, and any random attacker can just go to the site and harvest AWS credentials from anyone signed up.
That is very bad. I was always curious how life is in Europe (being the first world) but didn't think that's how the state of affairs would be.

Is it because of unions?
Probably because they really don't want you to have other accounts, they want all your email are belong to us.
This ruling is insane.

As a male, it's actually against my self-interest to defend higher premiums for men, but here goes:

It's an empirically observable fact that men are riskier than women. Deliberately refusing to use that knowledge distorts the free market and leads to a misallocation of resources.

Say that there's a young married couple who can only afford to insure one spouse as a driver. Say that both spouses work, and it would be equally (in)convenient for the husband or the wife to be chosen as the driver. With equal premiums, they could flip a coin to decide who will drive; they're indifferent. But with unequal premiums, they will always choose to let the wife be the driver, since that's the cheaper option and they're perfectly indifferent between the alternatives otherwise.

The latter situation is better for society because it reduces the expected monetary damage of accidents, since it's an empirically observable fact that this is lower for women. This fact would be reflected in free-market prices, except now the insurance market is distorted in the name of gender equality.

It's okay to discriminate based on observable facts. Women's restrooms don't have urinals. This isn't because of some grand patriarchal conspiracy to make women use a sitting position to represent their subordination; rather, this furnishing decision is due to observable differences in male and female bodies' biological plumbing.

If some court decided to force women's restrooms to have urinals to make them "equal" to men's restrooms, it would simply lead to a waste of limited and valuable time, money, and indoor space to build fixtures that would never be used.

EDIT: Just read the end of the article, about life insurance. Under the new ruling, every married couple contributing equally to two life insurances should just stop putting money on the wife and instead double their bet on the husband dying. Life insurance will actually become more valuable -- maybe even a positive expected value bet -- for men or couples that can do this, with their profits being sucked out of single, divorced or widowed women's premiums. This effect might even be large enough to destroy the women's life insurance market altogether; unless she knows she's near death, it might become a better bet for a woman to just put her money in savings bonds, index funds, or cash under her mattress. (I.e., while a court can force women's premiums to increase to make them equal to mens', and an insurance company now can't legally "know" a customer's gender when it sets the premium/payout bet structure, a woman does know her own gender and can refuse to buy life insurance on that basis since her personal EV is now negative.) Whether this is a desirable result for a strong believer in gender equality is left as an exercise to the reader.
You have a 50Mbps connection to your ISP. Your ISP may not have a 50Mbps * (number of subscribers) connection to the Internet.
Of course the US laws on copyright only apply to the US, but the idea behind the first-sale doctrine exists elsewhere. I just looked up the Dutch rules[1], and it turns out it’s very much the same. When a work is sold, the copyrights are “exhausted” and can no longer be invoked for that copy.

1: http://www.iusmentis.com/auteursrecht/spoedcursus/beperkinge... (Dutch)
I have a very disorderly desk but write very orderly code. I can't say I've ever met anyone with an orderly desk, actually.
I think you're confusing "dangerous" with "working as designed" - the whole point of the experiment was to have the subjects "learn" without explicitly having to do anything. Plus, the article also states that "researchers have said that their method has only been shown to work with visual perceptual learning".

Also, I believe fMRI induction is quite safe (on a physical level), as the actual magnetic field strengths are controlled very precisely to be as weak as required. At most, if you think of parts of the brain as neural networks, the fMRI stimulation might only act to modify the NN weights.
Plus a hostile takeover of Nokia would probably start a bidding war with Microsoft as white knight. That would cost way more than $10 Billion (if successful, which is a pretty big if).

But Apple doesn't need to buy Nokia. They could just license their mapping data like Amazon is doing.
"Focus is saying 'no'" - Steve Jobs

We need to say no to the other 99 good ideas to focus on one that matters most.
1. I come from a design background so I'd need to look at a working version of the original G+ to give you a proper answer. Sadly at the time I didn't take screenshots for my own reference (and I wish I did!!!!!).

2. This is based on my experience over the years with a number of products. My most recent issue was being a publisher and having an issue with AdSense -- so I was making them money, had an issue and couldn't reach a human. Yes if I was a bigger fish that wouldn't have been an issue, but then again big fish don't use AdSense.

3. I guess to be fair they should make the Android app better than the iOS one -- and maybe to be even more fair I'm lucky as an iOS user that they have a G+ app at all. And maybe looking at Instagram one might argue that a good mobile social network needs to be mobile first, and that it's super hard to go from the web to mobile.
Yes. Putting a dragon in front of the supplies cabinet doesn't fix the cultural issues. It just hides the symptoms.
A little bird told me about something called Thunderbird.
I've wondered how certain programs get around these restrictions. I use Boom[1] on my ridiculously quiet laptop. The program you download from MAS is more or less a shell. It guides you to download and install the actual sound drivers that do all the work.

[1]: http://www.globaldelight.com/boom/
You make an important point. We obviously have a lot of testing and refining to do. Thank you for taking the time to investigate our claim :)
How To Use iPad with openVPN
SpaceX ISS Dragon resupply mission is today
The actual article is not nearly as shocking as the hn title. They have not been able to implant any thougths yet. What they did was merely put people in a mental state where they can perform certain actions better.
Am i the only one to laugh at the use of Homer Simpson's MRI ?
A Brand New Way
How's the UX?
Is this New Zealand's version of The Onion?
Also, the "article" is from 8:18 AM Wednesday Dec 21, 2011
and the "X-ray picture" should remove the last doubts.

I have to admit, although I was in disbelief from the beginning, it got me quite excited and at some point thinking "Wow, if this is true, I should dropp everything and get into this field NOW"

Nice prank to make it to the front page.
Before he started writing more political stuff, Paul Krugman wrote a great article in Slate about a baby-sitting co-op that had a "recession" because everyone was saving too much and not spending enough. It's a nice example of the liquidity trap that he talks about a lot: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/19...
Young Steve Jobs introduces the Macintosh (1984)
Hilarious. For anyone that didn't notice the first time, look at the text of the "YY comments", there's another mini joke there.

I have to echo edw519's sentiment, btw - Humor on HN is usually misplaced, but this was just totally worth it!
Why It's Imporant to Learn How Developers Work
This is yet another case of reporters grossly exaggerating a discovery. It was discussed 10 months ago on Less Wrong: http://lesswrong.com/lw/8th/link_matrixstyle_learning/. Here's the actual paper: http://commonsenseatheism.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Shi...

Also, it was already known that parts of the brain can be programmed by visual stimuli. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCollough_effect and http://www.cheswick.com/ches/projects/me/index.html.
Is an email from a UX designer worth $10?
Can you give a hint as to what we can expect to do with this chip?

I was a Forth enthusiast and read the book in OP (in early 2000's) and followed Chuck's work from afar, but I am not sure what exactly I could do with this chip, given its peculiar limitations.
Evidence Based Scheduling. It works (2007)
Yep indeed. From the Jargon File:

> Derives from the phrase “trolling for newbies” which in turn comes from mainstream “trolling”, a style of fishing in which one trails bait through a likely spot hoping for a bite.

http://catb.org/jargon/html/T/troll.html
Man I hate pop science articles that don't give any way to find the original research. Here's the full text: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3297423/

So basically, forget everything you read in the Herald article. Except for this quote:

>A more understandable analogy could the scene from the action movie The Matrix where the star, Keanu Reeves learns kung fu by being plugged into a machine - except this method is considerably less invasive.

Remember that quote as an example of when you should stop reading a science article and start digging for the actual study.
Too bad it's Mark Zuckerman, a little-known cheese manufacturer. After the depression, Portugal was going for $3,000.
How much of this is because we still can't have a button which "puts the cursor where I'm looking".

(Or that we can't touch where the cursor should be).

"Go to the next instance of this word, wherever that is" is helpful; having to proxy a leap to somewhere you are looking at, through a vim command, still seems suboptimal.
Why must I watch the tribute every time i open safari?
I miss him less each time...
Don't hit me.

I visit G+ if

- some post here links to it (seriously, I have more or less no other source that points to that stuff, and_very_ rarely a search hit leads that way)

- I check, in vain usually, on the progress of a CM port for my LG crapphone, because the amazing guy behind most LG ports uses that site. I have a bookmark for his.. uhm.. posts? timeline? feed?

People in my non technical and environment don't know what G+ is. People in my geek community left it because it's worse than Facebook in trying to build 'identities'. I'm always surprised to see real world usage and will continue to be a skeptical observer. That huge potential might certainly exist, but I fail to see it.
What you say is not terribly far from the truth in general, and since it appears you meant it as such (as a general statement) I'll take it as if you did, but #python is not unmoderated by any means, nor is it moderated poorly on the whole in my opinion, and this is not a reflection of hijacking of any sort.

I personally agree with the sentiment, though if I were one of the ones that responded to the OP I hope I didn't do so abrasively.
In binary, you can't represent any of 0.1, 0.2, nor 0.3 with "proper" fractions, as they are irrational in a radix-2 number system. Thus, when actually performing the operation (0.3 - 0.2) - (0.2 - 0.1), the result may actually be non-zero, although very small.

The best thing to do here would be to use an inline comparison function with a threshold:

inline bool is_equal(double a, double b, double threshold = 0.0000001f)
{
if ( abs(a-b) < threshold )
{
return true;
}
else
{
return false;
}
}

Unfortunately, compounding floating point operations can drastically reduce calculation accuracy, leading to requiring a greater threshold value... Which is why I highly recommend reading the article titled "What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic" by David Goldberg (circa 1991, available at http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.ht...).
#21 made me laugh out loud, something which rarely happens on HN. I've been writing for years about how I could take Belize and turn it into Silicon Valley part 2, so that struck a chord with me. Well done.
you can buy these books on the internet at places like AbeBooks and AdLibris. they're called "international editions" and sometimes are restricted to non-US customers (i think; i don't pay much attention because i am not in the US). sometimes the paper seems to be of lower quality (thinner).

here's one http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=7512020183&... with, as far as i can tell, no restriction (it has US shipping rates).
http://buildnewgames.com/physics-engines-comparison/ uses WebGL via three.js

It's pretty hard to fault this site in terms of neutrality. There's even an article about SVG where the author uses Ubuntu and Inkscape.
Plus, Gmail lets you be logged in to two accounts from two different tabs in the same browser. Though usually I actually set up two separate browser profiles entirely, it's really not that hard to keep business and personal separate.
It's worked for me for years: http://i.imgur.com/bUB3u.png
>That’s being challenged now for products that are made abroad and if the Supreme Court upholds an appellate court ruling it would mean that the copyright holders of anything you own that has been made in China, Japan or Europe, for example, would have to give you permission to sell it.

That ruling. I don't think it says what you think it says.

I wish I could say this was some of the worst reporting I've ever seen, but alas.

edit: for anyone who wants to read it http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-2nd-circuit/1577369.html
While I share your feeling about x86, I don't feel PCs have stagnated since their standardization, at least not up until a few years ago. You are certainly correct that IBM PC at first was a horrid standard and until the Win95 generation other products have been ahead at least in certain aspects. However, I can't imagine the subsequent technology race between Intel, AMD, later 3Dfx, NVIDIA and ATI without that standardization. You just can't build chipfabs for billions of dollars if the market is splintered. Today we effectively got hundreds of GFLOPS accessible at our fingertips on commodity hardware, over a TFLOP if you count peak performance. Granted, bus architecture is still a bit stuck in the 80ies, which has now become a bottleneck with our SSDs - hence why Apple chose the proprietary route to get more out of their Macbook Airs.
It's all about the money. New graduates are cheaper. It's that simple. Technology and business are both over-populated with Randian/Libertarian douchebags for whom the quarterly bottom line is more important than good engineering or business as a sustainable entity in the larger social setting. Everything else is handwaving to hide this fact.
Did it tell you that Thunderbird is seeing its sunset?
But think about it: If they're going to get in the business of selling things that may have to change. Also on a meta level they sell ads to big customers which does require a human touch, so if they want to do more of that they'll need more humans. Granted I don't see Facebook opening retail stores like Apple, but at some point my guess is that you need humans. Even Amazon had to buy Zappos...
Each one of those points could lead to at least a couple of pages of in-depth analysis and recount of personal experiences. You could turn all the 90 points into a book (or into a blog, if so inclined) if you were to expand on each. Thanks for sharing!
Stewart / O'Reilly "Rumble 2012" cripples under load as stream goes live
Not nearly enough Steve Jobs.
For very important email, consider using an email address that is not published on the web and that is difficult to guess. Search on the user name of your address to make sure there are no results.

Only when you decide that someone is both important and trusted, have them use that email address.
Especially for facebook, which can still track you across other websites even if you log-off.
The explanations you surmise are all subject to the law, and what we are seeing here is that there are strata of society that are simply above the law. That we get a peek into the levers of power like this is merely a side-effect, not evidence that can be acted upon.
A parody that funny means it's time to leave.

I'll be back in 30,000 minutes to show off what I built instead of reading HN. You're all invited to do the same.

Drop me a line on twitter if you need some moral support.